To wiggle is to get yourself out of something, to quickly move back and forth, or to fidget and squirm around.
(verb)The definition of a wiggle is a small fidgety movement.
(noun)The squirmy movements made by a little puppy who is trying to escape from a hug are an example of a wiggle.
See wiggle in Webster's New World College Dictionary
transitive verb, intransitive verb wiggled, wiggling
Origin: ME wigelen, prob. < MDu & MLowG wiggelen, freq. of wiggen, to move from side to side, akin to OE wegan, to move: for IE base see wag
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See wiggle in American Heritage Dictionary 4
verb wig·gled, wig·gling, wig·gles verb, intransitive
Origin:
Origin: Middle English wiglen
Origin: , probably from Middle Low German wiggelen, to totter; see wegh- in Indo-European roots
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